Tag: Password Reuse
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Nearly 50% of People Will Abandon Sites Prohibiting Password Reuse
A new study investigating consumer password use found 25% of online shoppers would abandon their carts of $100 if prompted to reset a …
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Why Business Password Management Remains a Struggle
Everyone has a favorite. Savvy people, of course, know better than to use something that can be easily guessed, like 12345 or ‘Password.’ But, once you latch on to a password you really like and is easy to remember, …
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Password Reuse at 60% as 1.5 Billion Combos Discovered Online
A security vendor discovered nearly 1.5 billion breached log-in combos circulating online last year and billions more pieces of personal …
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The skinny on the Instacart breach
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected many facets of our lives—from how we visit our families, socialize with friends, meet with colleagues, …
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Password Reuse to Blame for Fifth of Account Takeovers
Email account takeover (ATO) attacks often last for over a week and result from employees reusing passwords across multiple sites, …
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ThreatList: People Know Reusing Passwords Is Dumb, But Still Do It
More than half of people haven’t changed their password in the last year – even after they’ve heard about a data breach in the news. …
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Boots yanks loyalty card payouts after 150K accounts get stuffed
Boots, a UK pharmacy chain, has suspended payments on the loyalty cards of 14.4 million active customers after its security team spotted …
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The (Growing) Problem of Password Reuse
SpyCloud is out with its annual credential exposure report, and the bad news is: Password reuse continues to leave enterprises open to …
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Ring Plagued by Security Issues, Flood of Hacks
Serious security holes in the Ring smart doorbell have been uncovered, according to a new investigation. For instance, Ring owners aren’t …
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Microsoft study finds 44M users using breached passwords
A new study from Microsoft Security has found that 44 million Microsoft and Azure account holders were using passwords that have …
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Former hacker warns against password reuse
Kyle Milliken is back from jail, and he has some advice for you. The 30-year-old hacker from Arkansas, according to his blog, at age 17 …
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Chrome users ignoring warnings to change breached passwords
If you were told that the password you had just entered was known to have been compromised in a data breach, what would you do? Presumably, …
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